Dilemma

Posted by Deepesh Yadav | Posted in , , | Posted on 9/09/2013
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There lies the dilemma, was I doing the right things because I really believed in them or just because I had no other choice. As much as power corrupts, a lot of times you need the power to be corrupt. An honest man may just be a euphemism for weak. I am often being called upright and honest, sometimes idolized, sometimes pitied, but never questioned for integrity, but then not everyone has seen through the layers. It isn't easy being me, for that matter, I wonder, if it is easy being anyone...


Bharat Shinde by no means was a failure in the eyes of the world with his flashy corporate title and pedigree despite modest beginnings, but only his heart knows the truth.

This post is written as a response to an indiblogger contest built around promoting Jacob Hills perhaps I might use this some day in something I write.

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From a normal life to a meaningful life

Posted by Deepesh Yadav | Posted in , | Posted on 7/27/2013
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Ted conferences have become synonymous with ideas, more specifically mind boggling and profound ideas. I have been fascinated by many talks I have seen so far, a window to a world with brilliant ideas, people chasing their passions and finding joy while doing so.


While the conferences that I had seen earlier, were mind boggling because of the sheer brilliance and sophistication of the idea and research, there is a difference in the one that happened in Mumbai –TedxGateway. The ideas are mindbogglingly simple yet impact-ful! The concept is highly relevant to Indian context. While any place in the world would be looking to have great ideas, in India, there are a lot of basic problems and a lot of them just need simple, economical solutions and some attention. There are so many unattended problems, thanks to our ineffective governance, that anybody willing to spend some time and energy can easily make a serious impact. 

Most of the talks are about the distilled concept that ted stands for; ideas and not necessarily the sophistication. A world eager to jump on to highlighting problems in any area and complain about it, TedxGateway talks are about solutions and impact. In my opinion, this came out most alarmingly in the talk by ArunachalamMuruganantham. He wouldn't be someone you would ever expect to appear in a conference like this. His background is the antithesis of ted speakers who are usually highly educated and worldwide experts in their area. He is a school dropout with little command over English yet he is a man whose eyes were open. The field he chose to make an impact was also very unorthodox considering his background. 

He chanced upon the way rural women handled their periods after his marriage and found it so shocking that he couldn't digest it and went about doing something about it. Without the support of sophisticated machines, education or domain experts, he went on to create a cottage industry that is producing low cost sanitary napkins for rural area. The idea is so simple to implement that it has the potential of penetration to the remotest areas with modest facilities, so something that can easily and definitely should go viral. That is the essence of these conferences, stripped of all the trappings of high profile conferences, it is about ideas, solutions, about keep an open mind focused on implementing solutions and as a result graduating from leading a normal life to a meaningful life as Mr Muruganantham puts it!

Franklin Templeton Investments partnered the TEDxGateway Mumbai in December 2012.

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Panasonic Camera: Image Counter

Posted by Deepesh Yadav | Posted in , , , | Posted on 2/19/2013
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Instead of a customary come back post, I am writing down something that might be useful to people and I am not even sure if I will be able to sustain so why make a big deal about coming back!

Coming to the point, few days back I was trying to work out the number of pictures taken by my Panasonic camera and after searching it found out how it can be done, though not in a clean single link. Hence, this blog

  1. Connect your camera to a computer in USB mode
  2. The folder names are always numbers, get into the latest folder i.e. folder with the largest number in name among all present. Sometimes there may just be one, in which case you save yourself some thinking
  3. Look at the latest image taken in that folder (i.e. the image with the largest number in its name)
    • The names are in the format "P Followed by a number" like P1090704
    • You can alternatively find this out by sorting on a field (Date Picture Taken)
  4. You will notice the folder name appended in the beginning of the file name (along with an extra P). For P1090704, 109 is the folder name. Divide the name in two parts: Folder Name and Rest which gives you P109 and 0704 (Rest). Eliminate P and the first digit from the folder name, you get 9 and then take the last three digits from the Rest. And that gives you 09704, That's the total number of images taken by your camera!

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